New works at Under the Basho: early darkness, winter dusk, on the verge, pale sunset, word storm,
early darkness —
the dough yields its breast
to my hands
cattails, January 2015
Under the Basho my personal best 2015
winter dusk—
we scoot over
for shadows
Under the Basho Stand-Alone hokku 2015
on the verge
of rocketing–
scent of silence
pale sunset
the blue heron’s
midlife
word storm
turning shadows
into a burden
Under the Basho modern haiku 2015
unfinished poems (for One Shot Wednesday)
red rose in a fluted vase sitting on its petals
for no one pretending prettiness passes
for love…
the gift in its box but a heart
unwrapped its beating unfelt like the ease
a lover leaves at dawn…
notes left unwritten cloud the heart
wilt on tight buds in a garden
awaiting a storm…
in the soil roots fight over names
like delphiniums like fuschia like hostas where
have heather dug stiffness out of hairs or simply rise
as rose at dawn…
the hand drenched in the haze sags under the moon
the night has so much to say so few
understand…
for us and the stars among sparrows spits turn
talisman in the dark as a dream finds a nymph
on a moss a croak becomes you…
Posted for One Shot Wednesday at One Stop Poetry. Come on in. Join me and other poets in this gathering place.
simple truths (for One Shot Wednesday)
simple truths rest
on stamens those succulent fibers
engorged by tears
the taste of sea spray
the sense of touch
defines homo sapiens on cheeks
the sweetness anthers hold the pollens
grow filaments on nose tips
smell to beasts like men feeds power
sniffing a cluster of lilacs
the mind sees indigo
the dye of death reeks of weakness
only a distanced eye
sharpens the heels of Lady’s Slippers
only fingertips fit the godhead’s
vacant smile
blistered palms could crack the lightning
break a thunder into a storm
but tongues roll clouds into balls
pelt the lips of magnolias
distend the petals
hold
let shatter into a mesh
of distracted grace
our reasoning
corroded
Posted for One Shot Wednesday at One Stop Poetry, winner of the 2011 Shorty Award for the Arts, a gathering of poets and artists sharing their art, nurturing each other. Check us out.
fire on fire (for One Shot Wednesday)
the whelp carouses
under el arbol de fuego blazing
rubbing a hind leg in rhythmic
push at the fevered trunk
dust gathers a small storm
a haze in the roots
of the birds-of-paradise
she prowls the hive
of a mid-equinox sun a tremor
in her steps touches the stones balking
at the rumour: Venus
has sipped from Pluto’s venom
she conceives black tongues
the women read on leaves
the sun descending stalls
midway on her whipping the whelp
for felling el arbor de fuego
as if fire on fire does not
consume the elements
in the wind the yelping
shreds the buds of trees
her screams draw
the night in moaning as if
torture is ecstasy
when body and soul those
tautened strings
lure hands to hammer
chords whimpering
she arcs her breasts
to suckling tongues of fire
Posted for One Shot Wednesday at One Stop Poetry, a gathering place for some of the most talented poets and artists ever. Share yours with their love for their art.